G'day Béèm,
I see you've tried the latest smp-capable Pups but still are having no luck with your unmodified Medion 8818. I was going to suggest you try the Slaxer Pup as something different but you beat me to it. Sorry to hear it did not work for you.
On my BIOS-modified 8818, I had not had any problems with any Pups until I tried wow's unnamed and MU's newyear's Pups. I think I have the same problem on my 8818 you report where there is an error during live-CD boot-up and the computer freezes. On my hyper-threading 8383 at home and HT Pentium-4 HP at work, I had these live Pups boot up OK so it may be something else in the dual-core 8818 BIOS setting that is incompatible with these particular Pups.
Here's hoping Woof will be the answer for you and the 8818, in one version or another,
Regards,
David S.

Hi davids45,
Glad to hear from my fellow MD8818-er.
An as the saying is: A shared burden is half a burden.

On the smp front, the 420smp is working and I can the two processors.
But the kernel level is too low to see the second sata HDD.

As is with this slaxer 4.12.

I didn't know MU's newyears pup was kinda like wow's unamed, so using the 2.6.28.5 kernel as well?
But giving a problem at boot as well.

So the onlu pup around now id Barry's upup-015 (Intrepid) which supports the second HDD and the kernel being at 2.6.29.rc7
Therefor I was happy to read that Barry did choose the 2.6.29.1 kernel.
However this upup-015 doesn't support the older sfs 3 files, as it is now at sfs 4.
Barry has mentioned this, and I think he is working on the issue.

So to have f.e. OOo in this upup-015, I couldn't use the OOo 3.01 sfs, but with the help of another puppy I made the /opt directory with OOo in it and copied it to upup-015.
This took quite some space of the personal storage, but I can use OOo 3.01 now.
As I have access to my second sata HDD now, I can access my data files on the desktop and don't have to use the laptop for it.

And with the 1GB of ram, puppy's are now very snappy.

As upup-461 (Jaunty) has a lower kernel, it doesn't see the second sata HDD.

the best way will be running
this script and attaching the info to this thread
many people will be able to read it
improving your chances

I am working on the USB problem now
but having detailed info helps to solve problems
more quickly

there are a lot of programs that interact
the support may be there but not configured correctly
in the scripts so the first step is to see if the support is there
if it is what is needed to correctly configure it

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#quick info grabbing for testing now all the
#important info is in root with a .gz format
#making it easy for you to upload information
#and attach to a forum post....big_bass
#the files below get placed in root

@big_bass,
Thank you for investigating.
I should have mentioned I already went to your point one.
Nor setting to AHCI or RAID for the VIA controller is an option, as Windows won't load anymore.

I will try your interesting plan B and report back.

However, any woof distro like upup with kernel 2.6.29.1 solves the problem also. Maybe this kernel is extended with support for the VIA controller in IDE mode.

EDIT
No joy with the APPEND parameter, but it was worth the try.
The first HDD is still sda._________________Time savers:
Find packages in a snap and install using Puppy Package Manager (Menu).
Consult Wikka
Use peppyy's puppysearch

big_bass
............Ok, wireless. I have a Netgear WG511V2 pcmcia card on this one... crappy Marvell chipset unsupported by Linux... however it works a treat in all Puppies with ndiswrapper. This is where I hit a snag. . All seemed to be going ok when I got a fatal error.... no ndiswrapper module! Please load another module!..........
Mick

I got the same error too and I might be wrong as am still learning but I couldn't find ndiswrapper.ko .can you please big_bass complie that module.

also my lucent modem was not detected and in other puppy versions martian modem works well but when I tried:
modprobe martian_dev
the error was module not found . also there are no ltserial ,ltmodem,agerserial modules.
can you please complie martian module and how to mknod for the /dev/ttySM0 device too if its not too much trouble.

OK, had a chance to test SlaxerPup on my oldest laptop: a PII, 300MHz Dell Latitude, and am happy to report that all hardware (that I've tested) works!

There is no built-in network interface in this laptop so I'm using an Atmel-based PCMCIA wifi card. I had to load the 'atmel-cs' driver before I could use the network wizard to configure wifi (I'm writing this using SlaxerPup on the D300XT while listening to CURTIN FM streaming through gxine. Amazing how well SlaxerPup works on this old Pentium II laptop from the last century )

There is only one USB port (USB 1.0) on this machine, so I've connected a 4-port hub to share a USB mouse and a USB flash stick. Works fine. Wouldn't be able to boot through the USB port though. Don't know if I would be able to boot through a PCMCIA USB 2.0 adapter - that's something I got working in some older Puppy years ago by adding the cardbus driver to initrd.gz...

I've attached the 'info_get' tarball below. In case you wonder about the strange entry for the harddisk in dmesg ('hda: Hitachi XX.V.3.4.0.0, CFA DISK drive'), I've replaced the harddisk in this machine with an IDE-to-CF card adapter and a 1GB CF flash card. On that, I have a frugal install of Puppy 1.0.7

Paul

Edit: Forgot to mention, the laptop has only 128MB RAM. Running from CD with pfix=ram, there is still 55MB RAM free.

1.) imagine installing slackware packages the official way so what you learn today can be used for years to come
using official tools
you only need this

pkgtools updated 6/10/09 to add JWM and iceWM fixmenus
slackware pkgtools as a pet to install official slackware packages
see the very first post for correct links

image one
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UPDATED 5/25/09 to src2pkg 1.98

build your own packages from source!
......now for the brave adventurous types forum member "amigo" maintains src2pkg I setup the puppy base for it to work correctly
with slackware tools
image two
src2pkg-1.9.8-noarch-11.tgz

use pkgtools to install src2pkg then
only once you need to run in console

Code:

src2pkg --setup

-->it will compile on your machine 412 devx needs to be active

2.)imagine learning how to build slackware packages from source code even downloading directly from a URL and auto build it

3.) now imagine leaning those professional skills in the comfortable
puppy environment surrounding you

4.)let's take the first step just a simple visual

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